| MD | HB109 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from selling in the State an expanded polystyrene food service product on or after July 1, 2020; prohibiting food service businesses or schools from selling or providing food or beverages in expanded polystyrene food service prod...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 579 |
| MD | HB277 | Pass | Authorizing the Governor to include the State as a full participant in a regional governmental initiative, agreement, or compact that limits or reduces greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector; requiring the Department of the Environme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 605 |
| MD | HB768 | Pass | Establishing the Prescription Drug Affordability Board to protect State residents and certain stakeholders from the high costs of prescription drug products; requiring the Board to collect data and identify prescription drug products that may cause a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 692 |
| MD | HB923 | Pass | Establishing the Task Force to Study Transportation Access for the purpose of reviewing certain information, findings, and recommendations to improve transportation access; requiring the Task Force to make a final report of its findings to the Govern...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 705 |
| MD | HB1347 | Pass | Amending certain prior authorizations of State Debt to alter the requirement that certain grantees provide certain matching funds; extending the deadline for certain grantees to present certain evidence that a matching fund will be presented; extendi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 737 |
| MD | HB1384 | Pass | Renaming the Hearing Aid Loan Bank Program in the State Department of Education to be the Hearing Aid and Language and Communication Video Loan Bank Program; requiring the Loan Bank to lend language and communication videos and certain downloadable r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 741 |
| MD | HB428 | Pass | Altering the policy and purpose of provisions of law governing flood control and watershed management to include establishing a grant program to assist local jurisdictions with infrastructure repairs, watershed restoration, and emergency protection w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 651 |
| MD | HB66 | Veto | Prohibiting a train or light engine used in the movement of freight in the same rail corridor as a high-speed passenger or commuter train from being operated in the State unless it has at least two crew members; establishing certain penalties; provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-24
Vetoed by the Governor (Policy) |
| MD | HB262 | Veto | Altering the circumstances under which certain individuals are exempt from paying the out-of-state tuition rate at public institutions of higher education; altering the circumstances under which certain individuals are eligible to pay the resident tu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-24
Vetoed by the Governor (Policy) |
| MD | HB720 | Veto | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to convene the Oyster Advisory Commission, in coordination with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, on or before June 1, 2019; requiring the Department, in coordination with the U...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-24
Vetoed by the Governor (Policy) |
| MD | HB735 | Veto | Requiring the Harry R. Hughes Center for Agro-Ecology, in consultation with the Departments of Natural Resources, Environment, Planning, and Agriculture and the Chesapeake Bay Program to conduct a technical study to review changes in forest cover and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-24
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| MD | HB810 | Veto | Increasing the maximum income limits on eligibility for a certain credit against the State income tax for certain child and dependent care expenses; making the credit refundable, subject to certain income limits; increasing, each year, certain income...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-24
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| MD | HB461 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to determine whether a reportable incident constitutes private inurement if a private nonprofit institution of higher education engages in a reportable incident; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 515 |
| MD | HB594 | Pass | Prohibiting a student loan servicer from employing any scheme, device, or artifice to mislead a student loan borrower; prohibiting a student loan servicer from engaging in any unfair, abusive, or deceptive trade practice; prohibiting a student loan s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 546 |
| MD | HB592 | Pass | Altering the basic rights afforded to each resident of a comprehensive care facility and an extended care facility; requiring certain individuals to pursue certain assistance from the medical assistance program in a certain manner; requiring a facili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 545 |
| MD | HB543 | Pass | Providing certain requirements technology-based businesses must meet before the Maryland Technology Development Corporation may make certain grants or provide certain equity investment financing; requiring the Corporation to adopt certain regulations...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 487 |
| MD | HB697 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Health Insurance Coverage Protection Commission to establish a workgroup to carry out the finding and declaration of the General Assembly that it is in the public interest to ensure that the health care protections established ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 418 |
| MD | HB1253 | Pass | Stating the findings and intent of the General Assembly that any exposure to lead in drinking water is dangerous to children, that schools should be proactive in reducing lead in drinking water outlets to 5 parts per billion, and that State and feder...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 557 |
| MD | HB814 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Easy Enrollment Health Insurance Program to improve data collection on uninsured individuals and to maximize enrollment of eligible uninsured individuals in affordable insurance programs; requiring the Maryland Health Benefi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 423 |
| MD | HB1427 | Pass | Altering the application of certain design and siting criteria established by the Coast Smart Council to apply only to certain State and local capital projects; extending the date the projects must comply with the criteria to July 1, 2020, and the da...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 442 |
| MD | HB1255 | Pass | Requiring the Department of the Environment and the Department of Transportation to jointly provide technical assistance to certain entities on certain matters; establishing the Zero-Emission Vehicle School Bus Transition Grant Program to provide gra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 492 |
| MD | HB213 | Pass | Extending the date, to on or before December 31, 2020, by which the Department of Natural Resources is required to prepare a certain fishery management plan for the cownose ray species, subject to available funding; and continuing the prohibition on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 343 |
| MD | HB417 | Pass | Repealing a requirement that a report of a sewer overflow or treatment plant bypass provided to the Department of the Environment by an owner or operator of certain sewer systems or wastewater treatment plants be made by telephone; specifying the con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 310 |
| MD | HB510 | Pass | Prohibiting the owner or operator of a refuse disposal system from accepting loads of separately collected organic waste for final disposal unless the owner or operator provides for the organics recycling of the organic waste; authorizing that loads ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 366 |
| MD | HB1072 | Pass | Authorizing the Motor Vehicle Administration to accept a certain form of security from a transportation network company in place of a certain insurance policy if the other form of security adequately provides certain benefits and if the transportatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 226 |
| MD | HB1124 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Budget and Management to provide certain units with training on the preparation of certain economic analyses; requiring a certain promulgating unit to establish an electronic registry and to post on the registry a proposed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 212 |
| MD | HB1123 | Pass | Altering the name of the Industrial Hemp Pilot Program to be the Hemp Research Pilot Program; establishing the Hemp Farming Program to promote hemp as an agricultural commodity in the State, the commercial sale of hemp products within and outside the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 228 |
| MD | HB808 | Pass | Repealing a certain list of plants considered to be noxious weeds in the State; requiring the Secretary of Agriculture to adopt regulations to establish a list of plants considered to be noxious weeds in the State; altering a certain condition under ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 278 |
| MD | HB1350 | Pass | Expanding the definition of "conservation property" for property tax assessment purposes to include land subject to a perpetual conservation easement, including an easement sold or donated to the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation, th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 241 |
| MD | HB1246 | Pass | Expanding the vehicle excise tax credit for the purchase of certain plug-in electric drive vehicles to include the purchase of certain fuel cell electric vehicles; providing for the credit for a plug-in electric drive vehicle and a fuel cell electric...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 213 |
| MD | HB1233 | Pass | Reducing the elevated blood lead level that initiates certain case management, notification, and lead risk reduction requirements in owner-occupied and affected properties; altering certain notification requirements triggered by the results of a cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 341 |
| MD | HB135 | Pass | Authorizing a court to order a defendant convicted of a charge of animal cruelty under the Act, as a condition of sentencing, to participate in and pay for psychological counseling and to pay, in addition to any other fines and costs, all reasonable ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 61 |
| MD | HB181 | Pass | Altering prohibited actions relating to electronic harassment of minors; prohibiting a person from maliciously engaging in an electronic communication if the electronic communication, as part of a series of communications, has the effect of intimidat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 27 |
| MD | HB240 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from threatening to commit certain hate crimes; and applying certain penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 28 |
| MD | HB307 | Pass | Establishing a Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission; authorizing the staff member provided by the Office of the Attorney General to issue certain subpoenas; requiring the Commission to hold certain public meetings in each county wher...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 41 |
| MD | HB641 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from engaging in sexual contact with an animal; defining "sexual contact with an animal"; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 72 |
| MD | HJ9 | Enroll | Designating June 28 as Freedom of the Press Day in Maryland to memorialize the lives lost on June 28, 2018, at the Capital Gazette offices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Signed by the President and the Speaker - Joint Resolution 1 |
| MD | HB110 | Engross | Requiring physical education to be provided in each public school in a planned and sequential manner to all students, prekindergarten through grade 12, for the purpose of developing the students' good health and physical fitness and to improve motor ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-08
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (45-0) |
| MD | HB298 | Pass | Establishing a network of oyster sanctuaries in the five tributaries identified by the Department of Natural Resources for large-scale restoration pursuant to the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement; codifying the boundaries of certain oyster san...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-08
Gubernatorial Veto Override (Legislative date: 4/4/2019) - Chapter 17 |
| MD | HB491 | Intro | Authorizing the Secretary of Budget and Management to adopt regulations providing for paid leave for State contractual employees whose unit is closed on a scheduled workday at the contractual employee's regular rate of pay.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-08
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB698 | Engross | Prohibiting a vehicle manufacturer from recovering by certain means all or a portion of its costs for compensating a vehicle dealer for vehicle preparation and delivery or warranty or recall repairs by arbitrarily reducing the amount of the compensat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-08
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (43-2) |
| MD | HB1120 | Engross | Authorizing retirees who participate in a certain prescription drug benefit plan to elect to have a spouse or dependent child covered under a certain State plan; requiring the Department of Budget and Management, on or before January 1, 2020, to esta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-08
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) |
| MD | HB1243 | Engross | Requiring that motor scooter sharing companies include on each motor scooter or electric low speed scooter made available to the public an embossed tactile phone number through which an individual who is blind or visually impaired may contact the com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-08
Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance |
| MD | HB714 | Intro | Requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to consult with the Maryland Association of Community Colleges when establishing a certain review process and adopting certain guidelines or regulations for a grant program for supplemental services ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-06
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB669 | Intro | Requiring a person seeking to construct a natural gas pipeline to apply for a certain water quality certification and pay a nonrefundable fee; requiring the Department of the Environment to establish a certain fee for the submission and review of a w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-05
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HJ11 | Engross | Designating March 13 as Women Veterans Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-05
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HJ2 | Intro | Applying to the U.S. Congress for an amendments convention called under Article V of the U.S. Constitution, on the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the several states, to propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that authorizes r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-29
Unfavorable Report by House Rules and Executive Nominations; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB112 | Engross | Prohibiting a person from causing the serious physical injury or death of a vulnerable individual as a result of the person operating a vehicle in a careless or distracted manner or in violation of any other rules of the road provisions of the Maryla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-29
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB593 | Engross | Defining the term "mortgage lender" to mean a person that is duly licensed under certain provisions of the Financial Institutions Article; clarifying the definition of the term "consumer claim"; and declaring the intent of the General Assembly that t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-28
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB336 | Pass | Specifying that an individual who is a civilian employee of the federal government is eligible to receive unemployment benefits under certain circumstances; altering the purpose of the Catastrophic Event Account to enable the State to respond to fede...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 1 |
